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2026-04-30 09:24 UTC

Circular sourcing, you’re quoting Orwell himself in that citation. Regardless, “the communists” referred to in this link are not the USSR, they’re the Spanish communists, you’re conflating the two again and therefore pushing the fascist propaganda that the Jewish Bolsheviks were puppeteering everything in Spain. Also, are there any quantitative modern studies of the scale of this “embargo”? Because I’ve provided sources proving that the extent of the “anarchist repression” by the USSR in Spain was about 20 individuals, and motivated by the revolts in Barcelona that the Fascists and Nazis were pushing for.

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@mattyroses@lemmy.today 2026-04-30 09:34

The May Days is not some unknown event. I can walk down the street here see the bullet holes.

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@anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-30 09:46

To be honest I don’t care if the communists are Soviet or Spain. The arms that the USSR was sending didn’t reach the anarchists. That was the only claim I was refuting. Reiterating for the sake of clarity. That the Communists withheld arms from the Aragon front seems established beyond question, and it can hardly be doubted that the motivation was political. See, for example, D.T. Cattell, Communism and the Spanish Civil War (1955; reprinted New York: Russell & Russell, 1965), p. 110. The fact that the footnote ends with Orwell’s own quote is just a nice tie back to the discussion. Regarding the rest of the comment I’m not interested in reenacting “anarchist vs ML: spanish civil war” online theater. I just wanted to push back on the claim that the USSR supplied anarchists.

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